Elizabeth Butler

Elizabeth "Liza" Butler was an Irish Citizen Army member who participated in the Easter Rising of 1916.

Biography
Elizabeth Butler was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Edward and Dolly Butler. She came from an upper-class family, and she performed as a theatre actress during the 1900s and 1910s before becoming involved with the Irish republican movement while studying medicine. Butler was affiliated with the socialist tendency of the movement, and she befriended Jimmy Mahon, another member of the movement; she secretly attended Irish Citizen Army meetings without the knowledge of her fiancee Stephen Duffy Lyons, who later went on to join the British Army during World War I. By 18 April 1916, she was an active Irish Republican Brotherhood member, and she was assigned to the battalion which would take St. Stephen's Green during the upcoming Easter Rising.